I tried to surface this earlier, and I said that I think you guys need to be engaged in a dialogue with the public, because I had the exact same example with my health care records. I don't want someone to see them on any given day, but if I'm lying in the street dying, I definitely want people to have access to them.
The honest truth is that there are no simple answers to these questions.
One of the key things I am trying to convey to you—and I think Professor Clarke is as well— is that we need to be thinking about what culture and what norm we want to build in this country around how we are going to manage these things. The opportunity space for us to do something different is there, but if the public doesn't come along and we don't move, then there's going to be an efficiency tax, an opportunity tax that we all pay as Canadians but that other countries won't be paying as they do things differently.
How are we going to not just build this infrastructure, but bring the public along and build something that they have trust and confidence in, and that they see as infrastructure they can rely on, not just from a technical perspective but from a trust and privacy perspective?
I'm sorry, but I don't have a better answer for you.